Computer Science Teacher

Did you see this on the CSTA mailing list? When the CSTA Board met recently we started talking about sharing what we were doing in our schoo...

This will be a short week in school. Thanksgiving is Thursday in the US and my school is off for a five day weekend. I’m looking forward to ...

I have this sort of love/hate relationship with web based applications. I had reason for a bit of both today. I like to introduce students t...

This week I have been showing the movie " Top Secret Rosies " to my freshmen students. It’s a wonderful story about some long unsu...

Last week was crazy for me. Professional development day last Monday and Veterans Day on Tuesday just made things start differently. Friday ...

Blatantly stolen from the CSTA announcement mailing list. We want to hear from all CS teachers! We are calling on YOU to participate in ...

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this. Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform, adds new development capabilities w...

Parent teacher conferences last week made for a couple of long nights. I confess though that I enjoy meeting parents and talking about their...

I love this meme image. When I tweeted it there was a lot of activity on it so I suspect it resonates with a lot of people. Most people who...

Interesting week last week. We finished the first quarter in school. For me a bit of catch up on grading. Not my favorite thing that. I didn...

Interesting questions appear on Twitter all the time. Sometimes addressed to individuals and sometimes addressed to the Twitterverse as a wh...

I found this image on Facebook last week and it really rang true for me. I experienced both sides of this recently. On one hand I wrote ...

What a week. I teach at a private school and one of the things we do is have open houses for prospective students and parents. Last week we ...

Recently I found the following image on Facebook. I plan to use it with my students this semester as a starting off point for conversation. ...

Actually picking any sort of name is important in programming but we can focus on variable names for a bit. The CS Teaching Tips team tweet...

I found this interesting flowchart for determining where one should eat Thanksgiving. It’s pretty complete which also means it’s complicated...

You know those school weeks with lots of interruptions, strange schedules and little normal routine? Yep, had one last week. I also managed ...

OK so the good news is that I am one of 15 finalists to win 15 Surface Pro's for my favorite school. The winners are chosen by community...

You’re at a great conference and you are hearing all sorts of great ideas. It’s exciting! You hear about tools and techniques that are worki...

It was Spirit Week at my school last week. It’s always interesting what students wear when they have really wide latitude – they wear unifor...